- Date
- September 6, 1970
- Place
- Missing Aircraft, WA · MISSING AIRCRAFT, WA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3540WPiper PA-32
- Status
- Completed · report February 19, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 170400
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1924 70/9/6 MISSING AIRCRAFT PIPER PA-32 CR- 1 0 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 2006 N3540W PX- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG AGE 28, 1923 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 400 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION NAS WHIDBEY IS,WASH ANACORTES,WASH TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- RADAR,RADIO CONT LOST APRX 4MI W OF ARPT,ABT 6 MIN AFT TKOF.ACFT DMG,PLT INJURY,ACDNT TIME PRESUMD
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3540W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Nas Whidbey Is
N3540WRegistration cancelled Jul 5, 2011 · Piper PA-32-260Airframe modelPiper PA-32-260Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.